--- title: "node promote" description: "The node promote command description and usage" keywords: "node, promote" --- <!-- This file is maintained within the docker/docker Github repository at https://github.com/docker/docker/. Make all pull requests against that repo. If you see this file in another repository, consider it read-only there, as it will periodically be overwritten by the definitive file. Pull requests which include edits to this file in other repositories will be rejected. --> # node promote ```markdown Usage: docker node promote NODE [NODE...] Promote one or more nodes to manager in the swarm Options: --help Print usage ``` Promotes a node to manager. This command targets a docker engine that is a manager in the swarm. ```bash $ docker node promote <node name> ``` ## Related information * [node demote](node_demote.md) * [node inspect](node_inspect.md) * [node ls](node_ls.md) * [node ps](node_ps.md) * [node rm](node_rm.md) * [node update](node_update.md)